I’ve been working off and on (mostly off) on my X-Wing. It is hockey season and the holiday season, so time in the Man Cave is limited. Since last I posted I have assembled the cockpit and the fuselage. I also filled some gaps that resulted from my inexperience. I did a bit of a shit job filling the gaps. I think they’ll look fine when viewed from an appropriate distance by someone who doesn’t know they are there. Again, this project has had a HUGE learning curve. I have been spending lots of hobby time watching YouTube videos about scale modeling, so I sort of know what I’m doing next time.
When it was time to paint, I tried my had at pre-shading. For those not in the know, that is the technique by which you give the look of weathering by painting black along the panel lines. Theoretically, when you paint your final colour, the shading shows through and looks like wear, dirt, etc. around the panels. When done competently, it looks really sharp. By now you know that competence is not my bag. I started out well, but then started to suffer from dry tip. The only problem is that it took me too long to realize dry tip was my problem. So, the whole pres-hading looked like crap. Luckily, I was able to paint over the shading and it looks ok, I think. It is time to weather now. More tutorials and probably more mistakes. As I tell my students, everything is hard until you’ve practiced enough that it isn’t.
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